Videos

Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel talks about how our brains perceive and understand works of art.

Scientists are unraveling how animals use Earth's magnetic field to navigate.

Learn how some snakes sense infrared radiation using specialized sense organs in their faces.

Watch scenes from research at the University of South Florida's Mote Marine Laboratory, where scientists saw what happened when they knocked out sharks' electroreception.

Biologist Carin Bondar delivers a TED talk about the wilder side of sex.

Scientist to Watch Cullen Buie, MIT researcher, talks about his quest to devise a method for quickly determining the pathogenicity of microbes.

Book author and neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt discusses her own struggle with her weight and the science behind breaking the cycle of gain and loss.

Climate change is causing ocean acidification, and shellfish, such as oysters, are bearing the brunt of the shift.

See footage from the expedition that discovered a coral reef hiding beneath the massive muddy plume at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Watch what happens when marine organisms have their way with a sunken pig carcass.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute researcher Peter Tyack expresses the beauty of marine mammal communication.

Stanford University biochemist Carolyn Bertozzi discusses her role at the helm of ACS Central Science, a cross-disciplinary, open-access chemistry journal

Researchers at MIT and the Weizmann Institute of Science discover the ultility of coral cilia in creating water currents that bring food and move molecules around the colonial organisms.